[REBOL] Re: Opening a new blog about Rebol?
From: ale870:gm:ail at: 20-Nov-2007 8:28
Just for curiosity, which platforms will be supported from R3? Initial
stage? and then which ones are planned?
On Nov 20, 2007 7:43 AM, Petr Krenzelok <petr.krenzelok-seznam.cz> wrote:
> Peter Wood napsal(a):
> > John
> >
> > Whilst Rebol is stored in a small file once loaded it uses a lot of
> memory.
> > Far too much to work under Palm OS which is why there has never been a
> Palm
> > version of Rebol.
> >
>
> I think that problem was also the porting effort. That should now not be
> a problem anymore, as rebol.dll (and yes, Tim, also rebol.so) are
> keeping only platform independent code, so in theory all is needed is
> set-up of compiler and you are done. At least much easier than with R2
> model. The rest in R3 is open-sourced.
>
> As for memory usage, View starts on 6MBs with R2, 2MBs with R3. But -
> remember that Sun also discontinued JavaME, and they are suggesting to
> use full Java, as even mobile devices are getting faster. Still having
> memory efficient tool is an advantage though ....
>
> Petr
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to
> lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
>
--
//Alessandro
http://sguish.wordpress.com
http://laccio.wordpress.com
